Hello,
I have already read Cindy's and Peter's messages about the Included
property of the MailMergeDataSource object, and I have a new question.
My C++ application is written with Visual Studio.Net 2003.
It uses OLE to automate the whole mailmerge process.
I have problems when dealing with two different kinds of MailMerge
documents:

Since the application must deal with mailmerge documents created
selecting only some of the records of the data source, the application
first cycles through all the data source records (selecting them with
wdFirstDataSourceRecord and wdNextDataSourceRecord), and for each of
them checks the Included property, thus knowing whether that record
must be merged or not. With this cycle, the application finally knows
the number of records to be merged, say NRecords.
Then, it cycles NRecords times, using wdFirstRecord and wdNextRecord,
merging data for each record, thus merging only the data records that
the creator of the document intended to merge.

But, when dealing with a mailmerge document created without
de-selecting any records (i.e., a document stating that ALL records
must be merged), an exception is thrown when checking the Included
property for the first record of the data source, the one selected
with wdFirstDataSourceRecord!

How can I solve this problem? I cannot avoid running the first cycle,
otherwise the application would not know how many records must be
included, and thus another exception would be raised when issuing the
ActiveRecord = wdNextRecord statement while the current record is the
last one included by the creator.

Thank you
Alessio

Yes, nasty.

Things seem to work after you have displayed the mailmerge recipients dialog
box. You could do that using

Dialogs(wdDialogMailMergeRecipients).Display TimeOut:=1

but I don't know how to suppress the dialog display in that case, should you
need to do that.

Peter Jamieson

"Alessio" wrote in message
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Hello,
I have already read Cindy's and Peter's messages about the Included
property of the MailMergeDataSource object, and I have a new question.
My C++ application is written with Visual Studio.Net 2003.
It uses OLE to automate the whole mailmerge process.
I have problems when dealing with two different kinds of MailMerge
documents:

Since the application must deal with mailmerge documents created
selecting only some of the records of the data source, the application
first cycles through all the data source records (selecting them with
wdFirstDataSourceRecord and wdNextDataSourceRecord), and for each of
them checks the Included property, thus knowing whether that record
must be merged or not. With this cycle, the application finally knows
the number of records to be merged, say NRecords.
Then, it cycles NRecords times, using wdFirstRecord and wdNextRecord,
merging data for each record, thus merging only the data records that
the creator of the document intended to merge.

But, when dealing with a mailmerge document created without
de-selecting any records (i.e., a document stating that ALL records
must be merged), an exception is thrown when checking the Included
property for the first record of the data source, the one selected
with wdFirstDataSourceRecord!

How can I solve this problem? I cannot avoid running the first cycle,
otherwise the application would not know how many records must be
included, and thus another exception would be raised when issuing the
ActiveRecord = wdNextRecord statement while the current record is the
last one included by the creator.

Thank you
Alessio